HSE Lead

Overview

As a HSE Lead at Linesight, you’ll be part of a high-performing, culturally diverse team delivering one of Europe’s most ambitious data centre builds. You’ll work on a large-scale, high-voltage construction project where safety is paramount, and your expertise will directly shape the success and integrity of the build. We foster a collaborative and empowering environment where you’ll be supported to take real ownership of your role, grow your career, and make a lasting impact. At Linesight, trusted relationships are everything — with our clients, our teams, and our partners.

The Opportunity

In this role you will: 

• Lead the identification and management of high-risk activities across all project phases, collaborating with key stakeholders to ensure proactive safety planning and coordination.
• Champion the implementation and continuous improvement of risk control measures, ensuring they are effective, monitored, and embedded in daily operations.
• Develop and maintain robust reporting and communication structures to provide clear visibility of HSE performance across the project.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of site-level HSE planning through active engagement with contractors, workers, and supervisors.
• Be a visible and proactive safety leader onsite — conducting audits, mentoring teams, and driving a culture of safety excellence.
• Design and implement the project’s safety strategy and procedures, ensuring alignment and buy-in from all project partners.
• Conduct independent audits across all construction activities, identifying gaps and driving corrective actions.
• Ensure contractors establish and maintain outstanding safety practices and procedures, aligned with project and regulatory standards.
• Maintain and enhance health and safety management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001).
• Lead investigations into incidents, near misses, and accidents, ensuring thorough evaluation and implementation of preventive measures.  

We would love to hear from you if you have: 

• A minimum of 10 years of construction safety management experience in

  addition to relevant HSE team management experience, ideally within data centre, pharmaceutical or high-voltage infrastructure sectors.

• 30 Hour training or local equivalent in Construction Industry Occupational Safety Health Administration (OSHA)

• Management training and Incident investigation training

• Strong track record in contractor management and stakeholder engagement, including design teams and project professionals.
• Deep understanding of European HSE regulations and standards, with the ability to apply them in complex, fast-paced environments.
• Excellent communication skills — both verbal and written — with the ability to influence and lead across diverse teams.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and digital reporting tools.
• A collaborative mindset and a passion for building strong relationships through openness, purpose, and shared achievement.
• Legal right to work in the Netherlands and willingness to be based in or relocate to Groningen.

Interviews are conducted either in person or virtually (video required).

About us

Linesight is a highly successful global project and cost management consultancy that keeps clients coming back. And for that we have our people to thank. You see we’re not like the others. We’re different. Unique. It’s our fresh thinking and focus on what matters that has led to our evolving. We are on a journey working in some of the most exciting innovative sectors with some of the world’s most prestigious companies delivering major projects that deliver a more sustainable built environment. We have an open culture and a flat structure where you can expect to be treated with genuine care, respect, and empathy. With Linesight, you can truly discover the power of team!  

Diversity, inclusion and accessibility   

Linesight is committed to transparent, equal opportunity employment practices. We are building a diverse and inclusive organisation, accessible to all, based on having a safe culture which enables all our people to be their true selves. We are a people business, and we understand that the more inclusive we are, the happier our people and better our work will be. We will ensure that individuals with disability are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or recruitment process and are accommodated in the workplace. If you require assistance or accommodation of any kind, please mention this in your application, we would love to hear from you!